Jeanne Willis was born in St Albans, Herts, in 1959. As a young girl she sought adventures though writing comic strips and books.

After completing a copywriting course at Watford Art College she went on to work in advertising. Today, Jeanne is an internationally renowned, full-time writer and has published over a hundred books ranging from picture books including The Bog Baby and Who's in the Loo?, to YA, poetry and fiction.

She has won several awards, including the Children's Book Award, the Silver Smarties Prize and has also been shortlisted for the Whitbread Award.

Even as a child, Isabella Grott had an inclination for drawing and painting, that made her enroll and graduate at the art institute in Trento (Italy). After that, she moved to Florence where she currently lives and where she obtained a BA in graphics at the Accademia di Belle Arti.

Afterwards, she also graduated at the Nemo Academy of digital arts. During the years, she has participated to various workshops with international artists, which helped and encouraged her in a continuous quest within the illustration field. She has been selected for an exhibition at the Pisa Book Festival.

She collaborates with various publishers to create illustrated books, on paper and digital, and she teaches at the Nemo Academy in Florence.